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Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

So he turned this way and that, and he saw that there was no one around. So he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

And Pharaoh heard of this matter, so he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Then they came to Reuel their father, and he said, "Why have you come back so soon today?"

So they said, "An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he actually even drew the water for us and gave water to the flock to drink."

And he said to his daughters, "Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Call him so that he may eat bread."

So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

So Moses said, "I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burned up?"

And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to look, so God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am."

So I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

So now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

So now, come and I will send you to Pharaoh, and so you shall bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt."

So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'

And they will listen to your voice; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt, and you all will say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.'

So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wondrous deeds which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

Then He said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail"—so he stretched out his hand and took hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand—

And Yahweh furthermore said to him, "Now put your hand into your bosom." So he put his hand into his bosom; then he took it out, and behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

Then He said, "Return your hand into your bosom." So he returned his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it returned to being like the rest of his flesh.

"And so it will be, if they will not believe you or listen to the witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of this last sign.